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In reply to the discussion: What is the "hard left"? [View all]Expecting Rain
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for America to use her military might to oppose evil. A guy who expanded free trade against the cries of the nativist-populist of his day (who were FDR's political enemies).
A return to unifying optimism that rejected the demagoguery, scapegoating, pessimism, fear-mongering, and class-warfare tactics of the populists of FDRs time.
And the embrace of a free-market economy as being essential to avoiding the twin economic evil offered by the populist right and the populist left. Which is why FDR embraced reforms designed to save capitalism.
Yes, we Democrats should embrace the values of FDR (most of already us do).
The problem is with those who confuse their neo-isolationist/neo-nativist/populist ideologies with those of FDR--a guy who utterly rejected this sort populism on both the left and the right.